JDubbleu

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[–] JDubbleu 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Technology Connections has a whole video on the danger of, "but sometimes" pertaining to those lights. It's a great watch if you're interested

[–] JDubbleu 1 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to say thank you for implementing this. It feels much more natural, so much so that I didn't notice it until I was scrolling for quite a while.

[–] JDubbleu 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Im currently complying with RTO because my office is close to my house and it is convenient, but there are talks of forcing employees to relocate to where the majority of their team is which would be halfway across the country for me. Needless to say we're losing people in droves and many medium/small companies are picking up tons of talent.

[–] JDubbleu 1 points 1 year ago

WD Greens are most commonly SSDs. They do make WD Green HDDs but they're not common, and the one OP had picked out was a 1 TB WD Green SSD.

[–] JDubbleu 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It is in the US at least. I live in the most expensive region of the US and $250k is more than enough to support a family of four here.

[–] JDubbleu 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good to hear. I remember during Zen2 a $10 price difference in RAM could be 5-10% performance because it just ate the hell out of fast RAM.

[–] JDubbleu 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're on a budget that WD Green drive is a great choice. They get slept on because they're ultimately second to Samsung in the storage space, but they make great drives and have been solid since before I was even born (I'm 23). I actually ran a 1TB WD HDD in 2013 that only recently started making ticking noises. I proactively replaced it since SSDs are stupid cheap nowadays, but I probably could've run it for a while longer before having any issues.

[–] JDubbleu 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SSDs and HDDs have similar life spans now, with some SSDs even having better longevity if you're willing to pay for it. The only reason to get HDDs now is if you need cheap bulk storage. For most people getting a $50 1TB SSD will be all they ever need.

[–] JDubbleu 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agree. Great parts list. The only thing I'm not 100% sure on is RAM because I have not kept up with CPU performance given different DDR5 specs, but I figure someone else would point it out if there was any misconfiguration there (such as when you see someone get a 3000MHz DDR4 kit for a Ryzen processor).

[–] JDubbleu 91 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I'm from California and in the income tax bracket that would definitely pay fewer taxes in Texas, but I'm happy to pay more because I feel like we get a lot for our taxes here. There's still waste, but we have so many social safety nets in comparison to other states it is well worth it. Not to mention the government has been running a budget surplus which is given directly back to Californians rather than pocketed by the government.

[–] JDubbleu 3 points 1 year ago

This is an instance where exercising eBay's great buyer protections is warranted. The card is outside of what I'd consider fully functional since it overheats due to a defect. If it was advertised this way that's one thing, but if not return it and get a fully functional card from an honest seller.

[–] JDubbleu 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I could make a suggestion, it'd be to have post bodies round off to the nearest word, and end in an ellipsis when they are too long for the post preview. It's a bit jarring seeing the body of many posts cut off mid word.

Also being able to download an image from the feed without needing to open it would be great.

Thanks for all your work! The app is really good and gets better with every update.

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